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Wordsearch Puzzle sheet on the theme of 'The Spice Girls Songs'.
Powerpoint so can be used on the board or printed as a worksheet.
Includes space for students to explain the keywords and suggested extension activities. Can take 10 minutes or an hour, depending on which activities the students complete.
Ideal for the start of a lesson, a quick filler, a homework, part of a cover lesson or as a plenary on the board with a whiteboard pen.
The idea behind these is to get students to become more literate and think independently about the words that could be used to describe the topic being taught. The repetition of the word over and over as they look for the word is useful in remembering the terms. Often the students will pick up on things that you would not normally expect!

This Bundle includes TEN separate ESCAPE ROOMS for:
1) U.S. Constitution Escape Room
2) Declaration of Independence Escape Room
3) Causes of the Revolutionary War Escape Room
4) Underground Railroad Escape Room
5) Bill of Rights Escape Room
6) Founding Fathers Escape Room
7) Women in History Escape Room
8) Branches of Government Escape Room
9) Martin Luther King Jr. Escape Room
10) Civil War Escape Room
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The Escape Rooms will take students on TEN separate secret missions around the classroom! The escape rooms have students decode facts about the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, Causes of the Revolutionary War, The Bill of Rights, Founding Fathers, Women in History, Branches of Government, MLK, Civil War and the Underground Railroad.
Escape Rooms have students walking around the classroom breaking codes. Students are given a secret code name and sent on a secret mission to solve the clues in less than an hour (You decide the amount of time!) Code names and secret missions are different in every escape room! The codes include ciphers, Morse code, cryptograms and a final 4 digit lock combination based on the four decoders/clues.
Each clue and code is different. The codes require students to think differently to decipher or decode them. Some codes are easier than others. Some codes require critical thinking to determine what a letter/symbol stands for. Each code will reveal a fact about U.S. History. For example, students will learn the number of amendments and articles in the Constitution, analyze excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, gain an overview of the amendments in the Bill of Rights or learn about the Boston Tea Party. They will learn about historical women and their impact on the world as well as the basic jobs of the branches of government. Lastly, students will learn about the contributions of MLK and why the Civil War was fought.
The use of secret code will keep your students engaged while competing to find the final lock combination. No props needed!! Students can report the final lock combination to you. If you wanted to, you could purchase a 4 digit lock that you program, but it is not necessary at all!
The best age range for this resource is 8+. Please look at the preview to determine if this resource works for your age group. Younger students may need some help with some of the more difficult codes. The Declaration of Independence is of higher difficulty than the rest...CHALLENGE your students!
You can use the pre-labeled clues or you can challenge older kids to choose/find the decoder that works for each of the clues. A set of labeled and non-labeled decoders are included with each escape room.
An answer key and teacher directions are provided for each escape room.
Time needed: 30-60 minutes/escape room
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Create these fun interactive foldables as part of your Language Arts lessons. Activities include matching syllables, spelling words, identifying nouns, verbs, and adjectives, and writing a letter. This is an electronic product that comes in pdf format.

Learn about the history of Father's Day as you create these interactive foldables for your Interactive Notebook or Lapbook.
These 2 foldables cover:
*Basic facts about the history of Father's Day
*The role of U.S. Presidents and Father's Day
*Father's Day around the world
*Favorite things about Dad
This ebook is a downloadable PDF file. Just follow the instructions, cut, fold, glue, and create!

The Christmas Fun Facts Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom! This escape room has students decode fun and interesting facts about the Christmas holiday season. This is the perfect resource for December fun! The Christmas Fun Facts Escape Room has students walking around the classroom breaking codes. Students are given a secret elf code name and sent on a secret mission to help Santa deliver presents on time. The codes include ciphers, Morse code, cryptograms and a final 4 digit code based on the decoders/clues.
Students will learn fun facts like:
*The tallest Christmas tree
*The number of LEGO products sold per second
*Christmas song facts
*The number of Christmas cards sent each year
Each clue and code is different. The codes require students to think differently to decipher or decode them. Some codes are easier than others. Some codes require critical thinking to determine what a letter/symbol stands for. Each code will reveal interesting, fun facts about the Christmas holiday season. The use of secret code will keep your students engaged while competing to find the final code. Students can report the final code to you. If you wanted to, you could purchase a 4 digit lock that you program, but it is not necessary at all! No props needed!! This is a NO PREP, PRINT &amp; GO Activity!
Students are sent on a “secret elf mission” and given a back story to ignite their active learning skills. They are given an elf code name which makes them feel as if they are part of the secret mission. Students practice hands-on, practical problem solving skills all while learning about Christmas Fun Facts. Your students will be inspired to think outside the box!
The best age range for this resource is 8+. Please look at the preview to determine if this resource works for your age group. Younger students may need some help with some of the more difficult codes.
You can use the pre-labeled clues or you can challenge older kids to choose/find the decoder that works for each of the clues. A set of labeled and non-labeled decoders are included for differentiation.
Once your students try one of my escape rooms, they will beg for more!
This activity is for all types of learners, especially kinesthetic.
In addition to learning or reinforcing the subject matter, my escape rooms encourage teamwork and critical thinking. As a “timed” challenge, students will be engaged from beginning to end!
An answer key and teacher directions are provided.
Time needed: 30-60 minutes
***This escape room will NOT give away that Santa is not real ;) This product also does not contain any religious reference.***

Read through a chapter of the book, explore the topic, answer questions and discuss, in preparation for a creative piece that will not only strengthen literacy skills and persuasive writing, but will build upon self awareness and communication through writing.
Ernie, the small Spanish snail, has left his home and family behind to pursue his dreams of finding a paradise snail garden. Write a letter back home to your parents and siblings, who ridiculed you and made fun of you for pursing such a 'crazy' dreams. Try to explain to them why, it means so much to you that you gave up everything to go in search of it.
Included in the lesson in a whole chapter from the book 'Ernie Gonzales: The Determined Dreamer', in which Ernie describes, in detail, what his dream is, his love of his grandpa, Manuel; the very person who inspired his dream, his relationship to the rest of his family and how their opinion of him was a factor in him leaving home.
Teacher's notes contains questions/points to discuss, written by the author, to guide the pupils to create a letter, written from the point of view of Ernie to his family back home, explaining to them why it meant so much to him to set out of such a daring, and uncertain, journey to reach an Olive Garden that only he, and his grandpa, believes exists. Also the pupils should strive convince his family to get behind his dream and join him for a better life in the paradise garden that he hopes to find.
Includes an 'Ernie's Letter' worksheet that pupils may wish to use for their final draft.
Also includes original images from the book.
All text is copyright Beth Shepherd.

This assembly can be used for 17th February Each year for the UK National Random Acts of Kindness Day or World Kindness day on 13th November.
The presentation is very &quot;picture heavy&quot; so the script is light to allow pupils to respond to the images.
Mirror Assemblies provide ready-made assemblies including scripts presentations and linked music in the form of a presentation which encourages thought and reflection as a warm-up for the main part of the assembly. For more information go to mirrorassemblies.co.uk

5 x fully resourced, highly-rated Self Management-focused lesson packs. All 5 lesson packs are complete with at least one hour-long powerpoint, accompanying differentiated worksheets, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs and starters. All are well differentiated to three levels throughout to enable clear evidence of progress for all students.
These lessons have been designed to meet the PSHE associations guidance for 2018 and to help create resilient, independent learners.
These resources have been highly-rated individually by TES users, follow the same consistent format and are easy to follow.
There is zero extra work required. You can just have a quick look at them and teach - instructions are very clear as you go along.
I use all of these myself as a head of PSHE, Social Studies and Life Skills and I really hope you find them excellent value. I've put literally weeks of time into this to make these lessons top quality for my own school team.
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Check out this simple and well-organized birthday template that you can use to track students' birthdays. The pdf is editable with pre-installed forms to that can be typed in. This can either be printed and enlarged or kept the way it is for simple record keeping. This fun and engaging template is a great way to ensure that no student feels forgotten and everyone feels valued in your classroom community!

Pupils choose 8 hearts to describe their Valentine in Spanish, decorate them and glue them to the card template. 22 hearts supplied and additional two blank.
Hearts are provided with masculine and feminine adjectives, along with a helpful word list.
This is also available in English and French.
These could be made into a lovely personalised card.
For more French and Spanish resources visit lovelanguage.